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| dietrich bonhoeffer letters and papers from prison: Letters and Papers from Prison Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Isabel Best, John W. de Gruchy, Lisa E. Dahill, 2010-06-01 Despite Dietrich Bonhoeffer¿s earlier theological achievements and writings, it was his correspondence and notes from prison that electrified the postwar world six years after his death in 1945. The materials gathered and selected by his friend Eberhard Bethge in Letters and Papers from Prison not only brought Bonhoeffer to a wide and appreciative readership, especially in North America, they also introduced to a broad readership his novel and exciting ideas of religionless Christianity, his open and honest theological appraisal of Christian doctrines, and his sturdy, if sorely tried, faith in face of uncertainty and doubt.This splendid volume, in many ways the capstone of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, is the first unabridged collection of Bonhoeffer¿s 1943¿1945 prison letters and theological writings. Here are over 200 documents that include extensive correspondence with his family and Eberhard Bethge (much of it in English for the first time), as well as his theological notes, and his prison poems. The volume offers an illuminating introduction by editor John de Gruchy and an historical Afterword by the editors of the original German volume: Christian Gremmels, Eberhard Bethge, and Renate Bethge. |
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| dietrich bonhoeffer letters and papers from prison: Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Letters and Papers from Prison Martin E. Marty, 2020-02-25 For facination, influence, inspiration, and controversy, Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Letters and Papers from Prison is unmatched by any other book of Christian reflection written in the twentieth century. A Lutheran pastor and theologian, Bonhoeffer spent two years in Nazi prisons before being executed at age thirty-nine for his role in the plot to kill Hitler. Ever since it was published in 1951, Letters and Papers from Prison has had a tremendous impact on Christian and secular thought, and has helped establish Bonhoeffer's reputation as one of the most important Protestant thinkers of the twentieth century. In this, the first history of the book's remarkable global career ... writer Martin Marty tells how and why Letters and Papers from Prison has been read and used in such dramatically different ways, from the Cold War to today.-- |
| dietrich bonhoeffer letters and papers from prison: Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Letters and Papers from Prison Martin E. Marty, 2011-02-07 From National Book Award–winning author Martin Marty, the surprising story of a Christian classic born in a Nazi prison cell For fascination, influence, inspiration, and controversy, Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Letters and Papers from Prison is unmatched by any other book of Christian reflection written in the twentieth century. A Lutheran pastor and theologian, Bonhoeffer spent two years in Nazi prisons before being executed at age thirty-nine, just a month before the German surrender, for his role in the plot to kill Hitler. The posthumous Letters and Papers from Prison has had a tremendous impact on both Christian and secular thought since it was first published in 1951, and has helped establish Bonhoeffer's reputation as one of the most important Protestant thinkers of the twentieth century. In this, the first history of the book's remarkable global career, National Book Award-winning author Martin Marty tells how and why Letters and Papers from Prison has been read and used in such dramatically different ways, from the cold war to today. In his late letters, Bonhoeffer raised tantalizing questions about the role of Christianity and the church in an increasingly secular world. Marty tells the story of how, in the 1960s and the following decades, these provocative ideas stirred a wide range of thinkers and activists, including civil rights and antiapartheid campaigners, death-of-God theologians, and East German Marxists. In the process of tracing the eventful and contested history of Bonhoeffer's book, Marty provides a compelling new perspective on religious and secular life in the postwar era. |
| dietrich bonhoeffer letters and papers from prison: Love Letters from Cell 92 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Maria von Wedemeyer, 1994 A collection of letters written between Maria von Wedemeyer and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, while he was in prison before being executed for his part in a plot to assassinate Hitler. The letters written by Dietrich show his passionate and romantic side. |
| dietrich bonhoeffer letters and papers from prison: A Year with Dietrich Bonhoeffer Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 2005-12-27 Dietrich Bonhoeffer was only thirty-nine when he was executed by the Nazis in 1945, yet his influence on Christian life has been enormous. His passionate, theology-based opposition to Nazism made him a leader, along with Karl Barth, in Germany's Confessing Church. Bonhoeffer is embraced by both liberal and conservative Christians, and the integrity of his faith and life have led believers everywhere to recognize him as the one theologian of his time to lead future generations of Christians into the new millennium. His writings are a treasure of spiritual wisdom, social con-science, pastoral care, and theological insights that are an inspiration to us all, no matter what challenges we face. A Year with Dietrich Bonhoeffer showcases his writings, letters, and sermons in a daily devotional format, encouraging and deepening readers' reflections and meditations. With a foreword by Jim Wallis, author of God's Politics, A Year with Dietrich Bonhoeffer will take readers on a 365-day journey of understanding with this deeply spiritual man. |
| dietrich bonhoeffer letters and papers from prison: Love Letters from Cell 92 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Maria von Wedemeyer, 1995 Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Maria von Wedemeyer came from urbane, highly educated families. By 1933, when Hitler came to power, Bonhoeffer had earned his doctorate, traveled widely, served a church in Spain, and had taken a position as lecturer and student chaplain at the University of Berlin. He was twenty-seven years old. Two days after Hitler's inauguration, Bonhoeffer preached a radio sermon condemning the German leader's policies. The transmission was interrupted. In 1935, Bonhoeffer was appointed head of an underground seminary at Finkenwalde. The Gestapo closed the school two years later, but Bonhoeffer's resistance activities continued. Bonhoeffer had met Maria von Wedemeyer years before, but when they became acquainted again in 1942 they fell in love. Shortly after their engagement in early 1943, he was arrested. Dietrich and Maria would never see each other again outside prison walls. But through their correspondence their relationship grew deeper, more affectionate, and more passionate. Volumes have been written about Bonhoeffer the theologian and martyr, but none of these works reveals the side of the man known by his fiancee. As we read these letters, we glimpse hopes, dreams, longings, and fears - and we witness a timeless love story. |
| dietrich bonhoeffer letters and papers from prison: "After Ten Years" Victoria J. Barnett, 2017-10-15 How does one read the signs of the times? What does it mean to resist? How do we engage faithfully in struggle? Dietrich Bonhoeffer has achieved iconic status as one who epitomizes what it means to struggle and resist tyranny and fascism and how one acts in faithful witness as a religious and political commitment. Bonhoeffer‘s witness and example is more relevant than ever. A testimony to that is a crucial essay penned by Bonhoeffer in 1942; After Ten Years is a succinct and sober reflection, and remains one of the best descriptions ever written about what happened to the German people under National Socialism. This volume presents this timely and unique essay in a fresh translation and a penetrating introduction and analysis of the importance of this essay-in Bonhoeffer‘s time and now in our own. |
| dietrich bonhoeffer letters and papers from prison: The Cost of Discipleship Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 2016-07-09 One of the most important theologians of the twentieth century illuminates the relationship between ourselves and the teachings of Jesus. |
| dietrich bonhoeffer letters and papers from prison: Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Christmas Sermons Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 2011-01-04 “The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, who look forward to something greater to come. For these, it is enough to wait in humble fear until the Holy One himself comes down to us, God in the child in the manger. God comes. The Lord Jesus comes. Christmas comes. Christians rejoice!” —Dietrich Bonhoeffer Executed by the Nazis for his complicity in a plot to assassinate Hitler, Dietrich Bonhoeffer remains with us today through his writings—far-reaching ripples of deep thought, passionate words, and unflinching character. Including biographical insights, Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Christmas Sermons spans Bonhoeffer’s seventeen years as a preacher. This collection of vintage sermons and writings searches out the power and mystery of the Christmas season: its joyous riches and its implications for our lives. Also available Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Prison Poems Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Meditations on Psalms |
| dietrich bonhoeffer letters and papers from prison: Summary of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Letters and Papers from Prison Everest Media,, 2022-03-27T22:59:00Z Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Bonhoeffer wrote this final paragraph at the end of 1942 or in autumn 1943. It was never completed, but it was planned as part of After Ten Years. The German text does not appear in the new German edition of Letters and Papers, but in Gesammelte Schriften II, p. 441. #2 I am fine, and I am grateful for the small things in prison. I am anxious about my fiancée, though, who has only recently lost her father and brother in the East. #3 Dietrich had not thought of the most obvious things first. He had not written to Dietrich, but he wanted to let him know that people were thinking about him. He had many heartfelt questions, but this note could not be more than the need to tell him all sorts of inconsequential matters. #4 I want you to know that I am grateful to you for everything you have been and are to my wife, my children, and myself. I hope that you can be free soon, and that the two of you can be together. |
| dietrich bonhoeffer letters and papers from prison: Prayers from Prison Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1977 |
| dietrich bonhoeffer letters and papers from prison: Life Together Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1978-10-25 After his martyrdom at the hands of the Gestapo in 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer continued his witness in the hearts of Christians around the world. His Letters and Papers from Prison became a prized testimony to Christian faith and courage, read by thousands. Now in Life Together we have Pastor Bonhoeffer's experience of Christian community. This story of a unique fellowship in an underground seminary during the Nazi years reads like one of Paul's letters. It gives practical advice on how life together in Christ can be sustained in families and groups. The role of personal prayer, worship in common, everyday work, and Christian service is treated in simple, almost biblical, words. Life Together is bread for all who are hungry for the real life of Christian fellowship. |
| dietrich bonhoeffer letters and papers from prison: Strange Glory Charles Marsh, 2015-04-28 Winner, Christianity Today 2015 Book Award in History/Biography Shortlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography In the decades since his execution by the Nazis in 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German pastor, theologian, and anti-Hitler conspirator, has become one of the most widely read and inspiring Christian thinkers of our time. With unprecedented archival access and definitive scope, Charles Marsh captures the life of this remarkable man who searched for the goodness in his religion against the backdrop of a steadily darkening Europe. From his brilliant student days in Berlin to his transformative sojourn in America, across Harlem to the Jim Crow South, and finally once again to Germany where he was called to a ministry for the downtrodden, we follow Bonhoeffer on his search for true fellowship and observe the development of his teachings on the shared life in Christ. We witness his growing convictions and theological beliefs, culminating in his vocal denunciation of Germany’s treatment of the Jews that would put him on a crash course with Hitler. Bringing to life for the first time this complex human being—his substantial flaws, inner torment, the friendships and the faith that sustained and finally redeemed him—Strange Glory is a momentous achievement. |
| dietrich bonhoeffer letters and papers from prison: A Testament to Freedom Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1995-03-31 Dietrich Bonhoeffer was only thirty-nine years old when he was executed in a Nazi concentration camp in 1945, yet his courage, vision, and brilliance have greatly influenced the twentieth-century Church and theology. Particularly through his bestselling classic, The Cost of Discipleship, Bonhoeffer profoundly shaped such minds and movements as Martin Luther King, Jr., and Leonardo Boff, civil rights and leberation theology. A Testament to Freedom, completely revised and expanded for this edition, includes previously untranslated writings, excerpts from major books, sermons, and selected letters spanning the years of Bonhoeffer's pastoral and theological career. This magnificent volume takes readers on a historical and biographical journey that follows Bonhoeffer through the various stages of his life--as teacher, ecumenist, pastor, preacher, seminary director, prophet in the Nazi era and, finally, as martyr in pursuit of peace and justice. |
| dietrich bonhoeffer letters and papers from prison: Bonhoeffer as Youth Worker Andrew Root, 2014-10-14 The youth ministry focus of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's life is often forgotten or overlooked, even though he did much work with young people and wrote a number of papers, sermons, and addresses about or for the youth of the church. However, youth ministry expert Andrew Root explains that this focus is central to Bonhoeffer's story and thought. Root presents Bonhoeffer as the forefather and model of the growing theological turn in youth ministry. By linking contemporary youth workers with this epic theologian, the author shows the depth of youth ministry work and underscores its importance in the church. He also shows how Bonhoeffer's life and thought impact present-day youth ministry practice. |
| dietrich bonhoeffer letters and papers from prison: Voices in the Night Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1999 Here in one volume are all the poems that Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote in a Nazi prison as he awaited execution for conspiring to assassinate Adolf Hitler. |
| dietrich bonhoeffer letters and papers from prison: No Ordinary Men Fritz Stern, Elisabeth Sifton, 2013-09-17 The fascinating story of two courageous opponents in Hitler’s Germany who both bravely resisted the Nazis—for World War II history buffs and fans of little-known histories. “A story that needs to be heard.” —Library Journal During the twelve years of Hitler’s Third Reich, very few Germans took the risk of actively opposing his tyranny and terror, and fewer still did so to protect the sanctity of law and faith. In No Ordinary Men, Elisabeth Sifton and Fritz Stern focus on two remarkable, courageous men who did—the pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer and his close friend and brother-in-law Hans von Dohnanyi—and offer new insights into the fearsome difficulties that resistance entailed. (Not forgotten is Christine Bonhoeffer Dohnanyi, Hans’s wife and Dietrich’s sister, who was indispensable to them both.) From the start Bonhoeffer opposed the Nazi efforts to bend Germany’s Protestant churches to Hitler’s will, while Dohnanyi, a lawyer in the Justice Ministry and then in the Wehrmacht’s counterintelligence section, helped victims, kept records of Nazi crimes to be used as evidence once the regime fell, and was an important figure in the various conspiracies to assassinate Hitler. The strength of their shared commitment to these undertakings—and to the people they were helping—endured even after their arrest in April 1943 and until, after great suffering, they were executed on Hitler’s express orders in April 1945, just weeks before the Third Reich collapsed. Bonhoeffer’s posthumously published Letters and Papers from Prison and other writings found a wide international audience, but Dohnanyi’s work is scarcely known, though it was crucial to the resistance and he was the one who drew Bonhoeffer into the anti-Hitler plots. Sifton and Stern offer dramatic new details and interpretations in their account of the extraordinary efforts in which the two jointly engaged. No Ordinary Men honors both Bonhoeffer’s human decency and his theological legacy, as well as Dohnanyi’s preservation of the highest standard of civic virtue in an utterly corrupted state. |
| dietrich bonhoeffer letters and papers from prison: Spiritual Friendship Wesley Hill, 2015-04-14 Christianity Today Book Award Winner Friendship is a relationship like no other. Unlike the relationships we are born into, we choose our friends. It is also tenuous--we can end a friendship at any time. But should friendship be so free and unconstrained? Although our culture tends to pay more attention to romantic love, marriage, family, and other forms of community, friendship is a genuine love in its own right. This eloquent book reminds us that Scripture and tradition have a high view of friendship. Single Christians, particularly those who are gay and celibate, may find it is a form of love to which they are especially called. Writing with deep empathy and with fidelity to historic Christian teaching, Wesley Hill retrieves a rich understanding of friendship as a spiritual vocation and explains how the church can foster friendship as a basic component of Christian discipleship. He helps us reimagine friendship as a robust form of love that is worthy of honor and attention in communities of faith. This book sets forth a positive calling for celibate gay Christians and suggests practical ways for all Christians to cultivate stronger friendships. |
| dietrich bonhoeffer letters and papers from prison: Fierce Marriage Ryan Frederick, Selena Frederick, 2018-04-17 Ryan and Selena Frederick were newlyweds when they landed in Switzerland to pursue Selena's dream of training horses. Neither of them knew at the time that Ryan was living out a death sentence brought on by a worsening genetic heart defect. Soon it became clear he needed major surgery that could either save his life--or result in his death on the operating table. The young couple prepared for the worst. When Ryan survived, they both realized that they still had a future together. But the near loss changed the way they saw all that would lie ahead. They would live and love fiercely, fighting for each other and for a Christ-centered marriage, every step of the way. Fierce Marriage is their story, but more than that, it is a call for married couples to put God first in their relationship, to measure everything they do and say to each other against what Christ did for them, and to see marriage not just as a relationship they should try to keep healthy but also as one worth fighting for in every situation. With the gospel as their foundation, Ryan and Selena offer hope and practical help for common struggles in marriage, including communication problems, sexual frustration, financial stress, family tension, screen-time disconnection, and unrealistic expectations. |
| dietrich bonhoeffer letters and papers from prison: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Eberhard Bethge, 2000 The authoritative biography of Bonhoeffer -- theologian, Christian, man for his times. |
| dietrich bonhoeffer letters and papers from prison: Ethics Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 2012-03-20 From one of the most important theologians of the twentieth century, Ethics is the seminal reinterpretation of the role of Christianity in the modern, secularized world. The Christian does not live in a vacuum, says the author, but in a world of government, politics, labor, and marriage. Hence, Christian ethics cannot exist in a vacuum; what the Christian needs, claims Dietrich Bonhoeffer, is concrete instruction in a concrete situation. Although the author died before completing his work, this book is recognized as a major contribution to Christian ethics. The root and ground of Christian ethics, the author says, is the reality of God as revealed in Jesus Christ. This reality is not manifest in the Church as distinct from the secular world; such a juxtaposition of two separate spheres, Bonhoeffer insists, is a denial of God’s having reconciled the whole world to himself in Christ. On the contrary, God’s commandment is to be found and known in the Church, the family, labor, and government. His commandment permits man to live as man before God, in a world God made, with responsibility for the institutions of that world. |
| dietrich bonhoeffer letters and papers from prison: Creation and Fall Temptation Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1997-03-12 In this enlightening study, renowned twentieth-century theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer offers a careful textual analysis of the story of creation, approaching the biblical tale of Genesis with the eye of a philosopher and the soul of a true Christian. “Creation and Fall” is Bonhoeffer’s lucid, brilliant analysis of the first three chapters of Genesis. Here he discusses the seeming scientific naiveté behind the creation story, God’s love and goodness, and humanity’s creation, its free will, and its blessedness. Bonhoeffer also tackles difficult questions that are raised from the first book of the Bible, questions about the seemingly redundant second story of creation, about God’s own beginning, about the source of the light that was created the first day. The author then expounds upon Adam and Eve’s fall from grace: How could they, creatures made in God’s image, have thought to oppose God so foully? Where did the first evil come from? How did humanity lose its right to live in paradise? In “Temptation,” Bonhoeffer questions how temptation appeared in the midst of Eden’s innocence, and he explores the very nature of evil. Bonhoeffer explains that Jesus Christ helps us to understand and conquer physical and spiritual temptation through His grace and goodness. |
| dietrich bonhoeffer letters and papers from prison: Adventures in Faith & Family Susan Lukey, 2021-09-01 Adventures in Faith & Family offers practical, intelligent, loving, spirit-filled wisdom for those looking for a friend who will guide them with faith as they pursue their own adventure of being a family. Delving into the multiple scenarios of a child’s life, Susan Lukey has drawn on years of research and her own experiences as teacher, minister, youth leader, and parent to reveal how families can sensitively and faithfully support and nurture a child’s growth “to become all that God has created them to be.” |
| dietrich bonhoeffer letters and papers from prison: Acts of Faith Eboo Patel, 2020-09-15 With a new afterword Acts of Faith is a remarkable account of growing up Muslim in America and coming to believe in religious pluralism, from one of the most prominent faith leaders in the United States. Eboo Patel’s story is a hopeful and moving testament to the power and passion of young people—and of the world-changing potential of an interfaith youth movement. |
| dietrich bonhoeffer letters and papers from prison: Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer Wolf Krötke, 2019-10-15 Wolf Krötke, a foremost interpreter of the theologies of Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, demonstrates the continuing significance of these two theologians for Christian faith and life. This book enables readers to look with fresh eyes at the theologies of Barth and Bonhoeffer and offers new insights for reading the history of modern theology. It also helps churches see how they can be creative minorities in societies that have forgotten God. Translated by a senior American scholar of Christian theology, this is the first major translation of Krötke's work in the English language. The book includes a foreword by George Hunsinger. |
| dietrich bonhoeffer letters and papers from prison: Spiritual Care Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Bonhoeffer says spiritual care is a function of the congregation and that it is an aspect of the broader, more encompassing activity of proclamation. In Spiritual Care, we are confronted with the awesome truth that in speech God's presence is known and that speech is also our own; in silence God's presence is known and that silence is also our own. The text demands us to consider how the gospel message is brought to people in the midst of their personal lives, and his message and counsel use the tools given within the traditional life of the church so that such grace becomes enacted, enfleshed, and incarnate in the Christian community. |
| dietrich bonhoeffer letters and papers from prison: The Bedford Handbook with 2020 APA and 2021 MLA Updates Diana Hacker, Nancy Sommers, 2021-07-30 This ebook has been updated to provide you with the latest guidance on documenting sources in MLA style and follows the guidelines set forth in the MLA Handbook, 9th edition (April 2021). If you haven’t looked at The Bedford Handbook in a while, look again: This edition has everything your students need to become stronger writers—in a briefer book. This reimagined Bedford Handbook takes a fresh “essentials” approach to the familiar coverage of writing, research, style, and grammar that The Bedford Handbook has always had. The result is a handbook that’s equal parts approachable and comprehensive. Students will quickly find answers in the book’s direct explanations and step-by-step instruction. They’ll get the practice and guidance they need with exercises, how-to guides, model papers, and class-tested examples. The advice you trust from Diana Hacker and Nancy Sommers is here. It all comes in a book that’s easier to carry, easier to use, and more affordable than ever. |
| dietrich bonhoeffer letters and papers from prison: Who Am I? Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 2005-03-01 Written while imprisoned by the Nazis in 1944, Dietrich Bonhoeffer's poem, Who Am I? reflects on universal questions about the uncertainly of the future, the nature of humanness, and the quest to find our purpose in life. To illuminate central thoughts within the poem, this attractive full-color book also contains excerpts from other writings. Finally, a brief biography of Bonhoeffer introduces the reader to the theologian's life, making this book a wonderful gift for those interested in Dietrich Bonhoeffer and those facing key life transitions where one might ask the crucial question, Who am I? |
| dietrich bonhoeffer letters and papers from prison: Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Meditations on Psalms Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Edwin Hanton Robertson, 2005 Eloquent, incisive, encouraging, and challenging--Bonhoeffer invites readers to find in the Psalm both a path toward rest in God and a call to Christ-like living as followers of the Lord Jesus. |
| dietrich bonhoeffer letters and papers from prison: Prisoner for God Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1960 |
| dietrich bonhoeffer letters and papers from prison: Four Faultless Felons G. K. Chesterton, 1989-01-01 Four members of a London club relate their former careers in crime |
| dietrich bonhoeffer letters and papers from prison: Unconscious Christianity in Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Late Theology Eleanor McLaughlin, 2020 Eleanor McLaughlin traces the development of Bonhoeffer's work on unconscious Christianity in his writings and constructs a definition of the term, shedding light not only on Bonhoeffer's later works, but his theological development as a whole-- |
| dietrich bonhoeffer letters and papers from prison: Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1906-1945 Ferdinand Schlingensiepen, 2010-06-01 A new comprehensive biography of this hugely important Christian martyr, 60 years after his execution at the hands of the Nazis Bonhoeffer has gained a position as one of the most prominent Christian martyrs of the last century. His influence is so widespread that even 60 years after his execution by the Nazis, Bonhoeffer's life and work are still the subject of fresh and lively discussion. As a pastor and theologian, Bonhoeffer decided to resist the Nazis in Germany, but his resistance was not solely theological. He played a key leadership role in the Confessing Church, a major source of Christian opposition to Hitler and his anti-Semitism and was principal of the secret seminary at Finkenwalde in Pomerania. It was here that he developed his theological visions of radical discipleship and communal life. In 1938, he joined the Wehrmacht's Abwehr, the German Military Intelligence Office, in order to seek international support for the plot against Hitler. Following his inner calling and conscience meant that Bonhoeffer was continually forced to make decisions that separated him from his family, friends, and colleagues, and which ultimately led to his martyrdom in Flossenbürg concentration camp, less than a month before the Second World War came to an end. His letters and papers from prison movingly express the development of some of the most provocative and fascinating ideas of 20th century theology. Sixty years after Bonhoeffer's death and forty years after the publication of Eberhard Bethge's ground breaking biography, Ferdinand Schlingensiepen offers a definitive new book on Bonhoeffer, for a new generation of readers. Schlingensiepen takes into account documents that have only been made accessible during the last few years - such as the letters between Bonhoeffer and his fiancée Maria von Wedemeyer. Schlingensiepen's careful narrative brings to life the historical events, as well as displaying the theological development of one of the most creative thinkers of the 20th century, who was to become one of its most tragic martyrs. |
| dietrich bonhoeffer letters and papers from prison: Sanctorum Communio Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 2009-07-01 Here is offered the complete text in translation, annotated by the German and American editors. The historical context is explained and textual commentary is provided in a Foreword and Afterword. |
| dietrich bonhoeffer letters and papers from prison: Ecumenical, Academic, and Pastoral Work, 1931-1932 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 2012 Volume 11 in the sixteen-volume Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works English Edition, Ecumenical, Academic, and Pastoral Work: 1931—1932, provides a comprehensive translation of Bonhoeffer's important writings from 1931 to 1932, with extensive commentary about their historical context and theological significance. This volume covers the significant period of Bonhoeffer's entry into the international ecumenical world and the final months before the beginning of the National Socialist dictatorship. |
| dietrich bonhoeffer letters and papers from prison: Prisoner for God Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1954 |
| dietrich bonhoeffer letters and papers from prison: Blind Spots Collin Hansen, 2015-04-16 Christians talk a lot about church unity. Unfortunately, however, God’s people are often better known for their divisions and disagreements than for a common commitment to the gospel. At the root of this disunity are the blind spots that prevent us from seeing other points of view and reevaluating our own perspectives. In this provocative book, Collin Hansen challenges Christians from various “camps” to view their differences as opportunities to more effectively engage a needy world with the love of Christ. Highlighting the diversity of thought, experience, and personality that God has given to his people, this book lays the foundation for a new generation of Christians eager to cultivate a courageous, compassionate, and commissioned church. |
| dietrich bonhoeffer letters and papers from prison: The Preacher's Wife Kate Bowler, 2020-09-15 Although most evangelical traditions bar women from ordained ministry, many women have carved out unofficial positions of power in their husbands' spiritual empires or their own ministries. The biggest stars write bestselling books, grab high ratings on Christian television, and even preach. Bowler offers a sympathetic and revealing portrait of megachurch women celebrities, showing how they must balance the demands of celebrity culture and conservative, male-dominated faiths. And black celebrity preachers' wives carry a special burden of respectability. A compelling account of women's search for spiritual authority in the age of celebrity. -- adapted from jacket |
| dietrich bonhoeffer letters and papers from prison: The Company Of Critics Michael Walzer, 2002-07-04 The Company of Critics provides a fascinating survey of the terrain of social criticism in the last century. Organizing the book as a series of eleven intellectual biographies, Michael Walzer tells not just the dramatic story of the cultural and political radical but also the more personal story of the meaning of criticism to the critic. By looking at the life and work of Julien Benda, Randolph Bourne, Martin Buber, Antonio Gramsci, Ignazio Silone, George Orwell, Albert Camus, Simone de Beauvoir, Herbert Marcuse, Michel Foucault, and Breyten Breytenbach, Walzer explains the role of the public intellectual in the context of what he identifies as the triumphs and catastrophes of our time: the two world wars, the struggles of the working class, national liberation, feminism, totalitarian politics.The new edition, featuring a new preface, contains Walzer's thoughts on his own role as a public intellectual and, most important, the challenges that lie ahead for the engaged social critic. With its unique emphasis on life as a proving ground for thought, The Company of Critics is a necessary addition to the literature of social and political engagement both within and outside of the academy. |
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer,2018-01-01 One of the great classics of prison literature Letters and Papers from Prison effectively serves as the last will and testament of the Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer executed by the Nazis after
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Stupidity Bonhoeffer, Dietrich from ‘After Ten Years’ in Letters and Papers from Prison (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works/English, vol. 8) Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2010. …
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Bonhoeffer's fragments from prison are some of the few bits of thought which have caused real theological excitement and bewilderment in recent years. In these letters and papers …
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Dietrich Bonhoeff er’s letters and papers from prison : a biography / Martin E. Marty. p. cm. — (Lives of great religious books) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-691 …
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Within the pages of "Dietrich Bonhoeffer Letters From Prison," a mesmerizing literary creation penned by a celebrated wordsmith, readers attempt an enlightening odyssey, unraveling the …
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Perhaps the best introduction to Letters and Papers from Prison is offered by Martin E. Marty in Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s ‘‘Letters and Papers from Prison’’: A Biography. His book belongs to the Lives of Great Religious Books series, which represents the unusual genre of ‘‘book biographies.’’.
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Dear Dietrich, I wanted to send you a greeting from us and tell you that we are always thinking of you. We know you and are therefore confident that everything will turn for the better, and …
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inspiration and controversy Dietrich Bonhoeffer s Letters and Papers from Prison is unmatched by any other book of Christian reflection written in the twentieth century A Lutheran pastor and theologian Bonhoeffer spent two years in Nazi
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Letters andpapers fromprison OnApril 5,1943, Dietrich Bon- hoeffer, aGerman pastor and teacher, wasarrested bytheGestapo andthrown intoprison; onApril 9, 1945, hewasexecuted. Thisbookis acollection oftheletters, essays and poems hewrote while inconfine- ment. Addressed tohisparents and toafriend, they formanextraor- dinary picture ofasensitive man whose faith anddedication …
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer’sLetters and Papers from Prison vii Prologue Title Page 1 Prologue An Account at the Turn of the year 1942-1943 3 Part 1 Title Page 21 Part 1 The Interrogation Period: April–July 1943 23 Part 2 Title Page 97 Part 2 Awaiting the Trial: August 1943–April 1944 99 Part 3 Title Page 341 Part 3 Holding Out for the Coup ...
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When first published in 1951 Dietrich Bonhoefer’s Letters and Papers from Prison was a slender volume of two hundred pages with an uncertain future. Its editor, Eberhard Bethge, a German Lutheran pastor and close friend of Bonhoefer’s, had yet to …
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Ethics was published in 1964, and in 1967 Letters and Papers from Prison. His lesser-known Fiction from Prison: Gathering up the Past appeared in 1981. Edwin H. Robinson edited a variety of Bonhoeffer’s lectures and occasional articles in three volumes: No Rusty Swords (1965), The Way to Freedom (1966), and True Patriotism (1967). Eberhard ...
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Then Bonhoeffer: Letters and Papers from Prison – A Journey of Faith and Resistance is for you. This meticulously crafted ebook delves into the profound writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a courageous pastor who challenged the Nazi regime and paid the ultimate price for his convictions.
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reflect the theological anti-Judaism of Bonhoeffer's era.] LETTERS AND PAPERS FROM PRISON 6
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Letters and Papers from Prison. Edited by Eberhard Bethge. London: SCM Press, 1991; New York: Macmillian, 1997 . What is bothering me incessantly is the question what Christianity really is, or indeed who Christ really is, for us today.
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Theory of Stupidity—Bonhoeffer Taken from a circular letter addressing many topics, written to three friends and co-workers in the conspiracy against Hitler, on the tenth anniversary of Hitler’s accession to the chancellorship of Germany.
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Prison Poems Dietrich Bonhoeffer,2005 From his prison cell where he awaited execution for conspiring to assassinate Adolf Hitler Bonhoeffer wrote 10 powerful poems charged with white hot emotions and disarming candor of a man who lived and
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27 Dec 2011 · Letters and Papers from Prison, long familiar to Bonhoeffer specialists, is now available to a wider public. As Marty carefully documents, what caught the attention of readers were Bonhoeffer's radical thoughts about the future of Christianity in the postwar world, which appear late in the book. A world come of age that no longer needs the
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer,2018-01-01 One of the great classics of prison literature Letters and Papers from Prison effectively serves as the last will and testament of the Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer executed by the Nazis after
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Bonhoeffer's fragments from prison are some of the few bits of thought which have caused real theological excitement and bewilderment in recent years. In these letters and papers Bonhoeffer explores the theological problem of
Letters and Papers from Prison (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works …
Perhaps the best introduction to Letters and Papers from Prison is offered by Martin E. Marty in Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s ‘‘Letters and Papers from Prison’’: A Biography. His book belongs to the Lives of Great Religious Books series, which represents the …
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Dietrich Bonhoeff er’s letters and papers from prison : a biography / Martin E. Marty. p. cm. — (Lives of great religious books) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-691-13921-0 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Bonhoeff er, Dietrich, 1906–1945. 2. Bonhoeff er, Dietrich, 1906–1945. Widerstand und Ergebung. 3. Prisoners of ...
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Now, all 16 volumes of Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works are available, including the ever-popular Letters and Papers from Prison (vol. 8). The first collection of these letters—a slim book that included only the ‘‘theo-logical letters’’—was responsible for …
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Within the pages of "Dietrich Bonhoeffer Letters From Prison," a mesmerizing literary creation penned by a celebrated wordsmith, readers attempt an enlightening odyssey, unraveling the intricate significance of language and its enduring affect our lives.
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Bonhoeffer, in The Letters and Papers From Prison, lays the groundwork for a kind of theology that breaks down boundaries between communities of believers/practitioners and that offen a fluid sense of
